Pretty much done in one. But this is true:Those of you who are skeptical about this and wonder why people with an addiction simply don't cowboy up and quit the booze or drugs are forgetting an important point: this is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to simply get a grip and quit that?

ArcadianRefugee:simplicimus: ArcadianRefugee: simplicimus: Pretty much done in one. But this is true:Those of you who are skeptical about this and wonder why people with an addiction simply don't cowboy up and quit the booze or drugs are forgetting an important point: this is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to simply get a grip and quit that?

When cancer can go into remission by simply not going to the store, I'll agree.

Alcoholism can be overcome by talking to people and having a modicum of willpower; cancer cannot.

The state trouper comes to do a demonstration of how alcohol impairs your reaction time. Venus and Johnny are tested sober. Venus does fine, Johnny has the reaction time of someone whose already consumed several vodka martinis. As the demonstration progresses, they drink and Venus gets shiat-faced while Johnny's time gets progressively faster to the point of being faster than normal. This causes a bit of consternation from the officer.

It all comes apart when Johnny goes to the bathroom and runs into a giant fish which he believes is a hallucination and now acts drunk. The fish is Herb Tarlek in the WKRP Carp mascot costume.

ArcadianRefugee:simplicimus: Pretty much done in one. But this is true:Those of you who are skeptical about this and wonder why people with an addiction simply don't cowboy up and quit the booze or drugs are forgetting an important point: this is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to simply get a grip and quit that?

When cancer can go into remission by simply not going to the store, I'll agree.

Alcoholism can be overcome by talking to people and having a modicum of willpower; cancer cannot.

simplicimus:Pretty much done in one. But this is true:Those of you who are skeptical about this and wonder why people with an addiction simply don't cowboy up and quit the booze or drugs are forgetting an important point: this is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to simply get a grip and quit that?

There's a number of addicts who live in my area. From what I've seen of them, I'd take the cancer if I had to chose.